skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my understanding, the costs involved in the Soviet response to SDI were small, and had very little effect on national spending, so I don't see how that's important enough to mention. Surely the falling price of oil was more significant, yes? I'll bet the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan was also more expensive.

Since gadders' comment is flagged, I don't know the fuller context.
That is kind of how it went, but there was more than email in its early days. Email existed, but Lotus also sold a separate email product. The rumors at the time ('94) were that Lotus was going to remove email from Notes and focus on apps. But instead IBM bought both and merged them. It got kinda lost from there, while also getting way bigger, but that is a different story.

Even so, it did have some app templates that came with it back in those early days - a helpdesk ticketing system, a sales CRM, discussions. I forget what they all were, but there was definitely a base of examples aside from email for people to start with.
Thats over-exaggerated and non linear. My mother smokes 40/day but let’s say 30 because it was’t always so much. How many days lost per year?

3036520/60/24 = 152days

She smoke since she was 20 and she’s 64 now. How many years lost in total?

(64-20)*152/365 = 18years

Life expectancy for women in my country is 85yo. How many years left?

85-18-64 = 3years

Oh shit I really hope that’s over exaggerated. I should call her now to tel her I love you. And stop smoking me too. Oh shit I’m crying now (for real)
I'm guessing it's a beam splitting prism with 2 paths, one for wide angle, and the other for telephoto. They used to make cameras with 3 ccds for color video.
Manager makes bad decision. News at 11.
> There is no technical moat, but that doesn't mean there isn't a moat.

The moat is actually huge (billions of $$). What is happening is that there are people/corps/governments that are willing to burn this kind of money on compute and then give you the open weight model free of charge (or maybe with very permissive and lax licensing terms).

If it wasn't for that, there will be roughly three players in the market (Anthropic and recently Google)
And this deniability is not side effect its the core reason corporations adopt these technologies for.
Indeed they seem to actually know/show how the sausage is made... but still, no fire and forget approach for any random dataset. check out what you need to do if the default isnt working for you (scroll down to eg. entity_extraction settings). there is so much complexity there to deal with that i'd just roll my own extraction pipeline from the start, rather than learning someone elses complex setup (that you have to tweak for each new usecase)

https://microsoft.github.io/graphrag/config/yaml/
Consider that just after the cone cells, there are other cells doing some computation / aggregate of cone signals. Don't forget that color is a brain construct.

For those reasons (and others), there's often a strong disconnect between stimuli and perception, which means there's no such thing as a perceptual uniform color space.
>You need a lot of space for that, cooling, and a good fuse

Or live in europe where any wall-socket can give you closer to 3kW. For crazier setups like charging your EV you can have three-phase plugs with ~22kW to play with. 1m2 of floor-space isn't that substantial either unless you already live in a closet in middle of the most crowded city.
Or C) Blue team analysis is not offered the same resources and interest as Red team analysis.

There’s also the “don’t ascribe to maliciousness what can be caused by bureaucracy“
I was using a Paternoster ever day until last year, I really miss it. When you happened to miss your exit it would just revolve around on the other side and you would have to wait an entire round to try your exist again.
Love the chapter dedicated to Cody, in the manual.
There is also spectral.js which is MIT:
https://github.com/rvanwijnen/spectral.js
Tobacco is quite interesting. It's not enjoyable. I don't know anyone who enjoyed it the first times they smoked. It takes efforts to get addicted. But once people are, it's extremely hard to quit, and lead you to an early death with quasi-certainty.

French author Michel Houellebecq refers to it ironically as a "perfect" drug, in the sense it doesn't provide pleasure, only addiction.

Good job US to manage to reduce their use. In my country, it drives me crazy that we're not able to prevent kids and teenagers from smoking, because this is the root of the problem. It's a huge cost for them to pay, and society as whole in term of healthcare.
Seeing Hell through the Reason and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Sadly https://68k.news it's broken.

But you can alwyas either use gopher://magical.fish/1/news under Lynx or Dillo with the Gopher plugin or head to

http://portal.mozz.us/gopher/magical.fish/1/news

under any browser, even the ancient ones from the Netscape 4 era.
Smokers have higher suicide risk than non-smokers.

It has been known for decades that smokers have a "smoker personality" which differs from non-smokers. In recent years some evidence emerged that smoking is the cause of this rather than vice versa.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140715141355.h...
Require that new data centers be powered by their own renewables/batteries instead of being attached to the grid. Problem solved. I'm surprised anyone building a data center is not doing this already.
This productivity tool works to manage, store and query personal knowledge following the Tiago Forte's second brain strategy.
I've builded it cause there isn't a tool aimed to that more than typical Notion or Obsdian (Both require configuration and are complex to use)

Here is the very first version: https://mindedtool.com/

I would really appreciate if you take a look on it and give honext feedback. On the idea itself but on this first verson also. Even if it's "What a bullshit cause ..."
The tool is in spanish so far, you can use browser translate feature if needed :)

Thx so much!!
RIP, although I’m sure his intentions were good, the majority of Iranians believe he is the catalyst that brought in the islamic regime and much of the misery in the middle east as a result. Millions displaced, millions more living under authoritarian regimes and war.
BitGrid - a systolic array of 4x4 bit Look Up Tables and latches.

Like Faraday's first electric motor, it'll have no practical use, at first. If I'm right, it'll be somewhat useful in reducing the power consumption of AI and let us ride Moore's law for a few more decades.
>From the inside, it may feel like you’re spending a lot of time on theory. Product thinkers don’t like that. They want to think about the customer.

Oh, finally somebody said it, thanks to heaven! Template "product mindset" with only data-driven way and unshakeable faith in the sacred custdev turn as a curse for interesting products and caused a problem of mass creation stereotypical products an gray, dull, soulless startups with only marketing packaging. But this inside-way is a really like some lost components of the product magic.
And lest we forget, China is not bothered by building as many nuclear power plants as it needs.
Show HN: I reverse engineered X to Read Threads without Any Account as Articles
Hi fellow hackers,

I'm Ved, I came across the pain point of having a reader that could provide threads as articles after scrolling them many times and missing the context of the original info shared.

To solve my itch I decided to build a thread reader without Ads(all existing sol. were full of them), since X/Twitter API was very pricey, I did some reverse engineering to convert rendered X.com/twitter pages to an API and host it in a VM (which obv. was dead cheap).

All of your data is saved in LocalStorage. Including your comments and saved threads(there is a known issue with Linux and MacOS browsers i think).

Code is open-sourced at :
https://github.com/vednig/unlaceapp

App is available at :
https://unlace.app

There are two views inbuilt in app

https://unlace.app/?url=https://x.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872...

https://unlace.app/thread/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381...

Reverse Engineered X API is available at https://xapi.betaco.tech/x-thread-api?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.co...

Meanwhile you can enter any twitter thread url on https://unlace.app to get a clean and read friendly article.

Here's the stack(if anyone's interested):

- NextJS

- FastAPI

- Selenium

That's all folks, looking towards a productive feedback session.
This has no future with 200mpx sensors becoming common.
If someone can't get off nicotine, they should switch to smoke-free alternatives such as snus or e-cigarettes.
>You're ignoring all the people that lost their jobs

Because Dube, Lester, Reich says that they don't exist. Businesses pay for almost all hikes by dipping into their profit margins. A small % raise prices. A negligible number let people go.
Splitting the code into 10s or 100s repositories is a cancer. It's almost as if you're intentionally trying to make your dev life miserable by pretending that you speeded up the dev turnaround times by not running the full test circle.
Then that immediately becomes a life or death situation.
It depends on your hardware, it has nothing to do with Home vs Pro.
Actually, doesn't it have to be linear?

I'm having trouble looking up the exact study, the link they provide doesn't actually link the study.

But if I were to structure an observational smoking study, I basically track smokers vs non-smokers from the same population. Hope that my n is big enough and then simply track years non-smokers lived longer vs number cigs smoked.

Thus linear.

Help me - because I can't imagine a different way to run this.
> In my experience simple blocking code is incredibly misunderstood.

I don't think so. You can't even implement a full-duplex protocol properly with sync IO since reading and writing can't happen at the same time on the same thread. Splitting them to different threads also won't help since accessing shared state requires synchronization with e.g. mutex that kills again simultaneous reading and writing.
Some people just butcher cables, piles of them; but that's irrespective of port technology.
They do make subtitles, although some talks from 37C3 are still marked as TODO so I’m not sure what the timeline is. You can help! https://c3subtitles.de/

And by the way, here’s the language filter issue – not a lot of discussion since it was created in 2019, though: https://github.com/voc/voctoweb/issues/399
Spectral.js might also be interesting. It comes with a GLSL implementation of Kubelka-Munk and is MIT.

https://github.com/rvanwijnen/spectral.js
as someone that quit almost 1 year ago, I can tell you that yes smokers could stare at their screen instead of talking to you when going out to have a puff
Yep, it has changed hands a few times, but Painter still exists, gets updated yearly, and does everything I saw described in the article. I've been using Painter since the 90s for digital art specifically because of how well the color mixing works and how well it matches real art tools - not just various paints, but pastels, pencil, pens, etc. Tons of options.

Now, all that doesn't come as a library for your own apps - that is definitely new and sounds like a great thing. But the implication that it has never been done before it quite wrong.
It’s not uncommon for tenders to be even more specific (allegedly actually unfairly benefiting specific manufacturers), but this one seems highly functional & reasonable to the point of it being more of an oversight that it wasn’t originally included.
And let's not forget the social aspects of being second hand smokers connecting emotionally with others in the same unfortunate position and whom they would not connect with otherwise :)
Show HN: Changelog Generator
Generate changelog/notes insights from git repos. I should have made this as Github App due to scope flexibility, for now curious if this may be interesting to anyone? Thank you.
Or organizations stuck with that code will be locked into impenetrable tech debt, while newer companies who didn’t do this idiocy murder then.

Or, probably, those larger companies force regulatory lock-in, and everyone is miserable.
There is some automated named entity extraction and relationship building out of un/semi structured data as part of the neo4j onboarding now to go with all these GraphRAG efforts (& maybe honorable mention to WhyHow.ai too)
> “Science may place at the disposal of future men forces so great that an entire army or city could be annihilated in a second, and it is little exaggeration to state that if the gifts of science were grossly misused man might entirely disappear from the world.”

For context, in 1913 H.G Wells wrote a novel "The World Set Free" that was essentially about atomic bombs. There was already quite a lot of speculation about the potential of harnessing radioactive elements to make bombs by the 20s.
How would you do this? You can't A/B test an individual's death.
This doesnt change the rules for war states agree to. No matter what some group in conflict does. Especially if that group is minority and you are the significantly more powerful.
> borrowing money to pay dividends to investor

That's scam. If you fail to profit, you should admit it, not fake it.
My interest for bluesky is practically non-existent as long as they ban people for posting commonly held views and scientific facts.

I’m not going to invest in a platform where fear of banning is a thing from the get go.
> These studies are correlations that ignore complex interactions.

Yes they have to. There's no way to do it otherwise and get any meaningful data. You have to get `n` to be very large.
I guess you could have smokers self-evaluate their social lives and see if any patterns emerge. “When you smoke, do you do it alone or with others?” Etc.
My XPS was dire, that was what drove me to my first MacBook.
So you're suggesting because everything is overpriced with Apple and they are a cult leader (your opinion) the government should step in and dictate the price and behavior?

Last time I checked some European countries have not only tax-free churches, they also facilitate collecting taxes and funding them.

Instead of policing cults and dictating pricing, I suggest simply not purchasing what you don't like.

(While we are on the subject of forcing behavior changes, let's mandate air conditioning and a singular electrical wall outlet. Why not?)
Greenland did actually join, but they left again.
Human-Level Trick-Taking Card Game AI
Brakes?, blown tire?, stearing failure?
other suspension related failure?
that plane have thrust reversers?
plus any asymetric system failure can be worse than a total failure, especialy with aircraft brakes, as they are used for braking, and stearing
during the landing run
point bieng, that video cant tell that part of the
story
Can you give an example? It sounds like you have something specific in mind.
This is a shame, because streaming is no replacement for good old files in your own storage.
Taking? Yes. It's the selling and marketing that's the social disaster, see the opiates scandal.
World3, the Public Beta (2012)
Nohavica's theory of alcoholic mountain comes to the rescue:

As you are drinking, you are climbing your alcoholic mountain. While you climb up, everything is ok. Once you crosses the summit and starts going down, nobody can help you. Doctors won't help you, your friends won't help you, you won't help yourself. So what's the problem? Nobody knows how tall is their mountain! So your uncle was drinking whole life and he was fine. Yes, because his mountain was very tall.

The scene is from the mocumentary "Year of the devil": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEgqhMpk5c
Skipping Boring Functions in Debuggers
No, he’s not arguing about causation but about correlation. Confounding variables. For example, where I live cigarette use seems related with social class (being more prevalent with the poorer part of our population). That can correlate with living and working conditions, which can impact everything else
the press release specifies there's no offset/parallax which would rule this out
It’s not tobacco (Which I’m convinced is not all that bad when stripped of all the processing and chemicals) but it’s whatever they are putting in the cigarettes.

Like about of folks here I enjoy a cigar from time to time (1-3 times a year) and suffer none of the addiction problems. The taste and aroma is legitimately nice, like having a nice cup of coffee or a scotch. But after smoking one there is no desire to have more and I’m usually smoked out for a few months to a year.
200mpx sensors have an incredible future with this becoming available
Well, there's this:

https://interlinearbooks.com/
Possible yes, users would need to pay with money.

Successful much less. Most users happily open bloat sites and pay with their privacy and being manipulated.
Prostitutes have lots of contacts with clients. Even if they work in a brothel, they meet government officials – ranging from the tax man to the health inspector from time to time.

Involuntary actresses in the porn industry are free to speak to anyone. And yet GirlsDoPorn was in business for years.

I'm saying: Keep your expectations realistic. My comment was also a refute to a sibling comment where someone claimed all problems would be solved if the creators had to verify their account. The 99% legitimate users might object to that. (Not the platform OF itself!)

What do you think will happen to a forced creator when the abuser screens the content for help signals before uploading? What if they don't know about it because they never interact with the platform directly?

At the end of the day, abuse is not a technical problem.
solar water heaters specifically. not the electricity-generating sort of panels
I can see no reason at all to suppose that this might be the case. Quite the reverse given current events and the determination of the current administration.
Amazon as in AWS is possibly a better analogy. What AWS sells is mostly commodity. Their moat is the cost of integration. Once a company has developed all its system around AWS, they are locked in, just because of the integration cost of switching. OpenAI only sells a single component, so the lock in is weaker. But once you have a business a company depends on which has been tested and relies on OpenAI, I can see them thinking twice about switching. Right now, I doubt we are near that stage, so my vote is on no moat yet.
also if u have gone thru the hell that is publishing and signing mac apps
Severance on AppleTV+

Amazing show which would resonate with a lot of people who come here
Interesting take, can you share you reasons for all things retro computing gaining popularity?
> This mindset is driven by hatred of White people and ignorance of White achievement and culture.

Those are the lies people are telling you to encourage fear and hate - that someone out there hates you. I truly don't think about white people, achievement or culture, ever, and I never hear anyone discuss them, except white supremacist leaders trying to create hate and fear. You might as well say I hate people in some village in the Peruvian mountains - they aren't in my consciousness.

Now that you mention them, that's because I don't think of them as groups that exist beyond white supremacists - in my experience, it's a worldview limited to white supremacists - nor do I think that the definition of whiteness makes sense. Nobody else I know or talk to ever mentions them, or ever talks about erasing them or anyone at all.Could you give an example of what you are concerned about?

And whatever you believe or like, I hope you worship / follow / enjoy it to the fullest. My opinion is irrelevant to that. Governments are there to protect your rights, as Jefferson wrote, and I'd be outraged if anyone tried to take yours and your culture away and I'd want to protect them; I'd want our government to protect them.

Where support, love, and tolerance for others stop is when the others are parasites on freedom - when they use theirs to take freedom away others. And that's what racism and white supremacism do. Then I'm going to protect the people you attack just like I would protect you.

Of course the leaders of hate and fear have rationalizations why it's ok. Bad people always do. Tthe devil never says 'I'm the devil and these are bad things'. People are misled, seduced, and hate and fear have historically been the most common means.

Let's all protect each other's freedoms. That's what it's all about. Let's get together and then we're invincible. People who want to weaken you try to split you apart.
Commercial Spyware Vendor
In medicine is often a threshold effect.
Only if you cross some threshold, harm is done.

I can not imagine that someone who smokes a few cigarettes in their 20s loses the same per cigarette as someone who smokes for years.
Sounds like it could be time to get some professional help.
People in favor of Iceland joining the EU should be honest and transparent that it's a pro inflation policy. In fact, Icelandic inflation would probably skyrocket.

Why?

Iceland's interest rate is 8.5% https://www.cb.is/other/key-interest-rate/

EU's interest rate is 3% https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...

The higher Icelandic rate is set for Icelanders by Icelanders in order to bring their 4.8% inflation rate down to the 2.5% target.

If Iceland adopted the EU's interest rate which is mainly set for France and Germany, that would be a 5% interest rate cut which is a massive stimulus. Icelandic inflation would skyrocket and there would be no chance of hitting the 2.5% target.

People should also look into Optimal Currency Area theory popularized by Paul Krugman eg https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...

The US Dollar works because of massive fiscal transfers from states on the coasts to states in the interior. The US also allows whole areas to deindustrialize like Detroit in order to solve the unavailability of currency adjustments between states.

Are Icelanders willing to subsidize Greece? Are they willing to forgo their ability to devalue their currency like in 2008? Without devaluation that means deindustrialization.

For all the above reasons, Iceland joining the EU would be the stupidest and most economically illiterate decision in it's history.
What’s not to like? The person gets to pat themselves on the back for “raising awareness” or “supporting the cause/people” while accomplishing nothing of value. It’s win win!
Wildly incorrect. $300k will let you live comfortably in SF, without roommates.

The fact that some people cannot live alone on that salary in SF does not mean most people cannot. I make considerably less than that and I could make it work. I wouldn't, because that would destroy my ability to save anything, but I could do it.
Notably, the 32 panels Carter installed were thermal water heating panels.

This means that there was no innovative technology in them, and they represent a technology path that is significantly less space efficient and less useful vs PVs.

It is also worth noting (especially on a platform that believes in American excellence as much as HN does) that modern PVs really trace their history back to Martin Green, who did most of his work with Australian Japanese and Chinese researchers (since he was in Australia), so funding the projects of American scientists might have not yielded the best results anyway.

So in many ways, you could argue that Carter’s solar focus was symbolically great, but stronger US subsidies would just make the US look like Germany - expensive and inefficient PVs that are increasingly becoming a liability (though bless them and their utility customers for powering through and continuing to install new, more efficient equipment).
SyFy had a write-up on him for 100th birthday (died age 50 alas). https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rod-serling-100th-birthday-re...

Went down some a rabbit hole of videos on Rod Sterling a while ago. Amazing man, saw such a change, and kept himself creative & enabled even when the world was denying him and itself, shielding itself from challenging & complex stories.